While thousands upon thousands of new products and technologies will be shown off at CES 2013, getting underway just a few days from now, one thing is clear: Without the work of Vint Cerf, we wouldn’t be where we are today. Cerf and his colleague Robert Kahn developed TCP/IP, or the computer communication protocol that
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No Comments » Without providing anything remotely close to an explanation, Jason Kilar, a former Amazon executive who rose to prominence as Hulu CEO, has announced his startling resignation from the company. Kilar broke the news to his colleagues today in an all-hands staff meeting via video conference. He subsequently confirmed the news to the masses in a
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President Obama made a statement on the school shooting in Newtown, Conn. on Dec. 14. Watch the video from that press conference here. More About: US, newtown
Unison lets employees communicate through virtual rooms organized around specific projects to help boost collaboration and productivity. More About: The Launchpad, startup
I am attending Pubcon for the first time. Every conference is different and often advice from those that have attended can be invaluable. I asked some SEO’s for their number one tip for those attending Pubcon for the first time. Lisa Barone My advice would be to create a game plan for Pubcon before you
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On Friday, Starbucks kicked-off its three-day Global Leadership Conference in Houston, Texas. At the conference, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and Square founder and CEO Jack Dorsey announced that customers will be able to use Square Wallet to pay with their mobile phones at U.S. Starbucks stores in early November. Customers will also be able to
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This week, there was ample reason to celebrate at Tapjoy. The popular mobile advertising and publishing platform says that it received the 2012 Mobi Award for Best Mobile Ad Network from Digiday. Digiday is host of the Digiday Mobile conference and a leading authority on digital media, marketing and advertising. Tapjoy was selected by a
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Were you hoping to waste away your hours of jury duty on Facebook or Twitter? Federal judges are hoping you won’t, and have a new list of instructions from the Federal Judicial Conference Committee on how to discourage social networking in the courthouse throughout cases. While you may just be browsing breaking news or your
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I had my heart set on being at the Conversion Conference in Chicago last June. You can just imagine my frustration (and heartbreak) when these plans were thwarted by unexpected circumstances. So I am determined to make it to the Fort Lauderdale show, which is the last Conversion Conference in the US for this year.
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Will Facebook one day give you the ability to edit your status updates? The quick and easy answer: It seems likely, yes. The answers to the more complicated questions of exactly how and when this might happen are less clear. At a journalism conference this week, a Facebook program manager reportedly implied — or provided
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